blog.rofheartjones.usGenealogy of the Rofheart & Jones Families – Blog on the Genealogy of Rofheart & Jones and 2,000+

Genealogy of the Rofheart & Jones Families – Blog on the Genealogy of Rofheart & Jones and 2,000+ Related Families. Genealogy of the Rofheart & Jones Families Blog on the Genealogy of Rofheart & Jones and 2,000+ Related Families. The Rofheart-Jones Family Tree The Rofheart-Jones Family Tree Family Tree – FAQs Should other family members get their DNA tested? About Back My Grandmother – Aunt Jesse” – Recording Star Starting in the late 1940s and up till the early 60s, my Grandmother – Jesse Rofheart – used to produce one-off 78RPM records for children’s birthdays … which seemed amazing to kids back then … of course even toddlers today make their own recordings. Here is a recording I just got my hands on and cleaned up a bit… enjoy! http://blog.rofheartjones.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Aunt-Jessie-Walter-The-Sneeze-complete.mp3 Posted by evananda February 26, 2018 March 6, 2018 Posted in Family Histories Tags: Aunt Jesse , Birthday records , Brooklyn , Childrens’ records , Rofheart , Sabo the Pirate Leave a comment on My Grandmother – Aunt Jesse” – Recording Star DNA says I am 2% Central African & 2% South American Native – NPE! After much research, it seems to me that I probably descend from a mulatto solider in Dutch Brazil. My DNA from 2 major companies both show about 1% to 2% South American native. My three youngest kids’ tests on ancestryDNA all show 1% South American and one of the kid’s ethnicity estimate at My Heritage is 1.4% Nigerian. With two different samples of my DNA (one from ancestry and one from 23&me) the analysis at FTDNA shows 1/2% -2% of West or South Central African DNA. This DNA would have to be from the real” father of my 8th Great Grandmother, Margarietje Polhemus , who was born in the tiny Brazilian Dutch outpost of Itamarca in 1642. A Non Paternal Event. Mulato Man (Brazil) from the book Albert Eckhout: een Hollandse kunstenaar in Brazilië Here is a painting (Mulatto Man of Brazil from the book Albert Eckhout: een Hollandse kunstenaar in Braziliëof) of one of the mulatto soldiers serving in the Dutch garrison of Itamarca in the 1640s. I could see how my 9th Great Grandmother might have strayed from her prim and proper minister husband. Maybe this is even my 9th Great Grandfather. Note the ripe hanging cocoa fruit in the painting, in Dutch art of the 1500s and 1600s fruit is a symbol identified with sexuality and fertility. The Spanish and Portuguese had been in Brazil for over 100 years, and there were many mulatto soldiers, with mixed Spanish, African (slave) and Native parentage. The Africans were of South Central African descent – the Mbundu People of Portugese Angola . FTDNA using improved DNA analysis finds that I descend from ancestors (300 years +/-) in Central Africa and also South America. As far as DNA goes, when it is under 1% it could be caused by noise” but when it is repeated from two different tests and also in my kids’ tests then it is a legitimate non-noise percentage. Of course where that DNA came from is a completely speculative theory at this point. Posted by evananda February 26, 2018 April 15, 2019 Posted in Family Histories Tags: Angola , Brazil , DNA , Dutch Brazil , Itamaracá‬ , Margarietja Polhemus , mulatto , Non Paternal Event , NPE , Recife , Slave trade Leave a comment on DNA says I am 2% Central African & 2% South American Native – NPE! I descend from the 2nd Governor of the Maryland Colony! Recently I discovered that I am descended from the 2nd Governor of the Maryland Colony, Thomas Francis Greene , one of the twenty gentlemen of very good fashion” who sailed from England to Maryland on the Ark in 1634, and was a founder of the Colony. Ark” and the Dove”, in a 1934 U.S. postage stamp. The two ships, the Ark and the Dove carried the first two hundred settlers to Maryland, and established St. Mary’s City , which became the Provincial Capital. This is how I descend from him: Thomas Francis Greene was appointed the 2nd Provincial Governor of the colony of Maryland in 1647, by the royally chartered Proprietor of Maryland, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore . He replaced Leonard Calvert, who had been the first Governor of the Province and died in office. After one year, Governor Green was replaced by William Stone. In addition to Provincial Governor of Maryland he was also at various times a Member of His Lordship’s Council, Commissioner of the Treasury and Magistrate . Maryland began as a proprietary colony of the Catholic Calvert family, the Lords Baltimore under a Royal Charter , and its first eight governors were appointed by them. When the Catholic King of England, James II , was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution, the Calverts lost their charter and Maryland became a royal colony . It was governed briefly by local Protestants before the arrival of the first of 12 governors appointed directly by the English Crown . The Royal Charter was restored to the Calverts in 1715 and Maryland’s Governors were again appointed by the Calverts through the American Revolution. Thomas Francis Greene was born at Bobbington, Kent , England in 1610, the son of Sir Thomas Greene and Lady Margaret Webb . Sir Thomas was made Knight Bachelor of the Realm by James I in 1622 at Windsor Castle . In 1634 Thomas Francis Greene married Anne Gerard, known also as Ann Cox, they built their home, St Anne’s” on Green’s Freehold, located near St. Mary’s City. The marriage of Thomas Green and Ann Cox is considered the first Christian marriage on Maryland soil. My descent is through Thomas Greene and his 2nd wife, Mistress Winifred Seybourne , who was born in approximately 1610, in England. They were married on April 2, 1643 and then had a son Robert Francis Greene in 1646, he would become my 6th Great Grandfather. Winifred Seybourne (my 7th Great Grandmother) emigrated to Maryland in 1638 , (the title Mistress was given to an unmarried woman of gentle birth who had acquired an estate and independent status). On 30 July 1638, she received 100 acres for transporting herself and another 100 for transporting Mistress Troughan, she was from a wealthy family and had financed both of their passages. Greene was one of the most prominent and influential men in public affairs in Maryland until his death in 1651. My ancestors are of Maryland’s first families” who are considered those who are the descendants of Sir George Calvert (Lord Baltimore) and of those passengers who came on the Ark and the Dove in 1634. Research for this article relied on Wikipedia and the blog tracemyorigin.com. Posted by evananda April 1, 2017 February 5, 2019 Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Ark and the Dove , Lord Calvert , MARYLAND GENEALOGY , MARYLAND HISTORY , MARYLAND’S FIRST FAMILIES , St. Mary’s City , Thomas Green , Thomas Greene Leave a comment on I descend from the 2nd Governor of the Maryland Colony! W.O. JONES: Welsh Farm-Boy to American Industrialist Born in 1837, William Owen Jones my 2nd Great Grandfather immigrated to America from Wales between 1856 and 1859, and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was employed as an apprentice boilermaker. In 1860 he was Naturalized and became an American citizen. He married Ruth Jones (her birth name) in 1866. She was also from Wales and had been first married to John Stark , a coal-miner in July 1860; they were living in Salisbury, Ohio about 100 miles east of Cincinnati. W.O & Ruth lived in Cincinnati till 1869, then at Ironton, Ohio through 1877. In 1870 when they move to Ironton, W.O.’s daughter Mary Jane , came to live with them. Born of a relationship when he was seventeen with a servant/farm-girl on his grandfather’s farm in Wales, Mary Jane later to be known as GoGo”, would go on to wed three husbands herself and create a Matriarchal dynasty. When she died in 1944 in Birmingham Alabama, GoGo was a wealthy and respected self-made woman. In the 1870s, Ironton was a major industrial center in America and was the largest producer of iron plate and products in the world. In the 1870 census, W.O....